Just Keeping Swimming A Review of the Biological and Social Components of Teleost Fish Shoaling

Stuart Strock

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Natural Sciences

First Advisor

Beulig, Alfred

Keywords

Fish, Shoaling, Schooling, Behavoir, Review

Area of Concentration

Marine Biology

Abstract

Shoaling is a very common behavior among fish species; approximately 50% of all fish species engage in schooling behavior at one or more stages of their life. Extensive research has investigated the nature of this behavior over the past century, but the past 40 years have offered considerable progress in the understanding the evolutionary, sensory and social components of shoaling behavior. This comprehensive review encompasses a wide spectrum of schooling research from the last half century to the present. It begins with an analysis of the evolutionary selection pressures acting for or against the continued expression of shoaling behavior in fishes, and extends to an exploration of the inheritance and dynamic adaptation of shoaling, the role of senses in school cohesion dynamics, and a further analysis of the way fish select their groups, based on an array of acting social pressures. Finally, the research itself is reviewed and possible avenues for future research are considered.

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